Feature: New Saints Row reboot gameplay looks much the same as old Saints Row, just prettier
I don't know what any of us expected
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Review: Eternal Threads review: Eastenders meets time travel meets electrical safety
The time is out of joint!
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Review: Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong review: mystery, intrigue, and walking about
Keep your fangs sharp and your wits sharper
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Review: Gibbon: Beyond The Trees review: a short, but heartfelt ecological adventure
King of the swingers
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Feature: What's better: random critical hits, or controlled crits?
A question of chance
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Feature: V Rising is a vampiric Valheim you shouldn't miss out on
Stick your neck out for this one
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Feature: It's still tough to be a new Eve Online player in 2022
CCP are making progress on tackling Eve's learning curve, but some players are taking matters into their own hands
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Photography game Umurangi Generation is now on Game Pass
The Stylish apocalyptic snapshot won 2021's IGF Grand Prize
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Feature: RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2009
We list our favourite games from 2009, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
News
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Spiders announce colonial fantasy RPG sequel Greedfall 2
Make sure to write "Spiders" as often as possible
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Four SteamWorld games are in development, including a citybuilder
And a new turn-based strategy-shooter
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Vampire Survivors, Sniper Elite 5 heading to Xbox Game Pass this month
Plus Jurassic World and Hardspace: Shipbreaker
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Popverse is a new pop culture site from our business dad
Marvel! DC! Star Wars! Anime!
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Blizzard's next Overwatch 2 event dated for June
The first PvP beta is over
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Acer are bringing their no-glasses 3D screen tech to gaming laptops
The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition will launch with stereoscopic 3D for “over 50 popular games”
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Phonopolis is a playful dystopian adventure from Amanita Design
It's also their first game with 3D graphics
Supporter funded articles
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Mechfights made mellow in Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics
I cannot tell alkali
While fads come and go, mech games continue to simmer pleasantly away without ever taking over or going away. The latest one I've finally made some time for is Ignited Steel Colon Mech Tactics, a turn-based tactical game with a light sprinkling of FTL.
Despite appearances, it's quite mildly roguelike, and those of you who dig a complex strategic challenge or skin of your teeth …
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To get rid of the curse of knowing about caecilians, you must pass the knowledge on
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In the face of Warzone's endless churn, I admit defeat
War, war always changes
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RPS@PAX 2022: Skyrim Grandma's complete PAX East panel
Shirley Curry on the enduring appeal of Skyrim, why she won't be playing Starfield, and her ongoing search for creepy, scary games
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Reviews
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Intel Core i9-12900KS review: Intel’s fastest gaming CPU yet
But you should probably stick to the Core i9-12900K... or a good Core i5
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Eternal Threads review: Eastenders meets time travel meets electrical safety
The time is out of joint!
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong review: mystery, intrigue, and walking about
Keep your fangs sharp and your wits sharper
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Gibbon: Beyond The Trees review: a short, but heartfelt ecological adventure
King of the swingers
Deals
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Get the upgraded version of RPS' best wireless mouse at $50/£30 off
The Logitech G Pro X Superlight is an incredible piece of kit.
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Get a ludicrously fast Lenovo Legion RTX 3080 gaming laptop at $600 off
16-in 2560x1600 165Hz display, Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
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AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X gaming CPU is down to £185 in the UK
Nearly £100 below the 2021 price and a great deal.
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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is £1049 at Scan
A rare listing at UK RRP for this high-end graphics card.
RPS@PAX
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RPS@PAX 2022: Skyrim Grandma's complete PAX East panel
Shirley Curry on the enduring appeal of Skyrim, why she won't be playing Starfield, and her ongoing search for creepy, scary games
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Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry would like Todd Howard to "hurry up and finish The Elder Scrolls 6"
"I want to play it before I die," she tells fans at PAX East
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RPS@PAX 2022: Our favourite booths from the show (and bonus carpet rankings)
No really, the carpet this year was *outstanding*
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The whole carnival's come to town
Videos
Bestest Bests
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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2009
We list our favourite games from 2009, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
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Dorfromantik review: the best strategy puzzler two years in a row
Out on the tiles
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Turbo Overkill early access review: a retro-inspired FPS that never lets up
I can't stress this enough - you have a chainsaw for a leg
Hardware
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Intel Core i9-12900KS review: Intel’s fastest gaming CPU yet
But you should probably stick to the Core i9-12900K... or a good Core i5
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Acer are bringing their no-glasses 3D screen tech to gaming laptops
The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition will launch with stereoscopic 3D for “over 50 popular games”
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Amazon Prime Day 2022: Everything we know so far
A Prime Day primer for PC hardware bargain hunters
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Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far
Get your RTX and RDNA 2 graphics cards at the ready
Indiescovery
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Eternal Threads review: Eastenders meets time travel meets electrical safety
The time is out of joint!
Time travel stories can have pretty high stakes, because usually you only travel in time when you really need to change something. A killer robot is trying to kill a lady because of something her son will eventually do, that kind of thing. My favourite episodes of Doctor Who, by contrast, were always the ones where the Doctor met a miserable dog-alien thousands of years …
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Phonopolis is a playful dystopian adventure from Amanita Design
It's also their first game with 3D graphics
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Photography game Umurangi Generation is now on Game Pass
The Stylish apocalyptic snapshot won 2021's IGF Grand Prize
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V Rising is a vampiric Valheim you shouldn't miss out on
Stick your neck out for this one
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The joy of unending death in Hades
If at first you don't succeed...
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20 Minutes Till Dawn demo is a cracking roguelite shoot 'em up
Bit like Crimsonland, or a shooty Vampire Survivors?
From The Archive
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What happens when you make a Crusader Kings 3 ruler with every stat set to max?
The Age of Men is over. The Time of Gigaknight has come.
The Vatican City, 1146 AD, and 90 years into a game of Crusader Kings III. As the doors of the conclave chamber are sealed, a ring of hangdog cardinals stare miserably at each other in the sudden gloom. It is time, once again, to choose a new Pope. Once, this would have been a gathering seething with the ambitions of powerful men. Now, it …
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The death of my maxed-out Crusader Kings 3 ruler has kicked off an apocalyptic witch fight
The vast and the furious.
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An ode to cutting off boss tails in Dark Souls
Tails from the Lordrans
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Give yourself a good day by playing Webbed
Sling for joy
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G String is like Half-Life 2, except that I like it
Bach to the future
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NIMBY Rails has made me a train person
Love live the Pey Wet Express
Latest articles
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Spiders announce colonial fantasy RPG sequel Greedfall 2
Make sure to write "Spiders" as often as possible
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Four SteamWorld games are in development, including a citybuilder
And a new turn-based strategy-shooter
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Vampire Survivors, Sniper Elite 5 heading to Xbox Game Pass this month
Plus Jurassic World and Hardspace: Shipbreaker
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Get the upgraded version of RPS' best wireless mouse at $50/£30 off
The Logitech G Pro X Superlight is an incredible piece of kit.
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Intel Core i9-12900KS review: Intel’s fastest gaming CPU yet
But you should probably stick to the Core i9-12900K... or a good Core i5
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Get a ludicrously fast Lenovo Legion RTX 3080 gaming laptop at $600 off
16-in 2560x1600 165Hz display, Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
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Popverse is a new pop culture site from our business dad
Marvel! DC! Star Wars! Anime!
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Blizzard's next Overwatch 2 event dated for June
The first PvP beta is over
Guides
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How to get Whetstone in V Rising
Learn how to find and craft Whetstones in V Rising
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Learn how Gear Score works and how to increase it in V Rising
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E3 2022 alternatives: The summer games schedule
E3 may not be happening, but there's still plenty of opportunities to catch the latest game announcements
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Here's an archive of previous Wordle words
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Today's Wordle answer (Wednesday 18 May)
Here's the answer to Wordle #333
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Use these tips to get started with V Rising
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Use these maps to find all 237 boss locations in Elden Ring
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Learn about every region on the current V Rising map
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How to get explosives in V Rising
Learn how to get explosives in V Rising
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How to find bosses in V Rising
Learn where to find the powerful V Blood Carrier bosses in V Rising